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Migrating from Cumulus 1 to MX: Difference between revisions
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Cumulus 1 was an all in one application, it both read the data from the weather station and provided the user interface for you to see the derived data and change the settings.
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MX is different, it consists of a stand-alone 'engine' which performs the reading and logging of data, uploading to a web site etc. This 'engine' is a command-line/terminal/console application which has no user interface.
When you successfully start MX, the engine is running, and it continues, until it is terminated
If you are using the browser on a different device on your local network to the device running MX, you cannot use local host. Instead you specify a IPv4 address, that is listed in your router (might be called a hub) for the device running MX, this IPv4 address will look like '192.168.y.z' (where y and z are numbers that vary between implementations).▼
The separate [[MX Administrative Interface|admin interface]] is provided by virtue of the engine acting as a web server. You can view the admin interface by typing the URL of the built-in web server into your browser, either on the same machine, or on a separate machine sharing the same local network. The default URL if the browser is on the same machine as MX is http://localhost:8998/.
Equally, if "localhost" is already in use for another web server (that you already run on your device), you will need to use the correct IPv4 address as above, even on the same device.▼
▲If you are using the browser on a different device on your local network to the device running MX, you cannot use that local host shortcut. Instead you specify a IPv4 address, that is listed in your router (might be called a hub) for the device running MX, this IPv4 address will look like '192.168.y.z' (where y and z are numbers that vary between implementations).
▲Equally, if "localhost" is already in use for another web server (that you already run on your device), unless you can differentiate purely by port number you
For security reasons, the admin interface should not be accessible via the public internet.
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